What is Growing in KDH?

Kitah Daled children made beautiful mosaics with all kinds of legumes before Thanksgiving break.

What do we know about legumes? They grow in a pod. We have some in our growing in our garden. Peas!

How can we get them to germinate?

We wrapped some navy, kidney and black beans in wet paper towels. We put them in ziploc bags and left them in our classroom over the Thanksgiving break.

Look what we found when we came back!

Every day they grow more. We took out two of them out of their small ziploc bags, today. One we put into a plastic juice bottle that was in our recyclables. We are hoping it will be like a greenhouse. Another one we put into a large ziploc bag and taped it up again onto the window.

How much will be they grow?? Will we eventually have beans?

We also took out the Indian corn from our Fall tray. Could we get the corn to germinate? We put the corn into an inch of water. It had already grown roots and short stems when we came back to school on Monday.

It keeps growing and growing. It makes us think of a centipede. 

Come and look at it.

And finally, we have started harvesting our carrots. We picked a red carrot and peeled it. It was a little disappointing that it was orange inside, like typical carrots. But, we were not disappointed by its sweet taste.

Sweet carrots grown by sweet children!

Morah Ruth and Morah Sarah